Dog Urinating on Front Gate
People are constantly letting there dogs relief themselves on my iron gates that surround the front of my property and its driving me crazy. Aren’t you supposed to curb your dog? Does anybody else have this problem? Am I being overly sensitive? Anything I can do to stop it?
People are constantly letting there dogs relief themselves on my iron gates that surround the front of my property and its driving me crazy. Aren’t you supposed to curb your dog? Does anybody else have this problem? Am I being overly sensitive? Anything I can do to stop it?
Wow, I can’t believe there are posters who think it’s OK for dog owners to allow their dogs to piss all over someone else’s gates. Next thing they’ll be saying is that it’s OK for dog owners to allow their dogs poop right in front of the same gate. It’s purely assholish on the owner’s part. My electrician keeps threatening to set up a surveillance camera (some dog owner allows his/her dog to poop right in front of his garage) which is starting to sound like a better and better idea.
According to duckumu, “Curb your dog doesn’t apply to urine.” I think it does. Of course dogs have to pee, but their owners should not let them pee on fences, in the middle of the sidewalk, on flowers, etc. Nobody wants to smell dog urine or step in it. I would be highly irritated if every time I walked out of my house I smelled dog urine on my fence. If that makes me overly sensitive, so be it.
Awww, Brownstonerlogin, tradmod, randolph and a few others:
Those were some thoughtful and just plain nice responses.
I’m a dog owner and truthfully, the original poster isn’t nuts for complaining. Urine’s corrosive power isn’t a myth. I’ve observed fire department call boxes where about a foot up from the bottom there’s total corrosion where generations of dogs have urinated on the base.
Still, it’s easy to let your male dog wander. I often had to pull my male dog back from his constant attempts to pee on motorcycles and bikes. Saturday, I saw pee dribbling down the corner of the eucalyptus display at the FG Park green market. You really have to watch these pee machines
Some people in the notoriously dog un-friendly Battery Park City area carry spray bottles to water down areas where their dogs have urinated. You might tie a spray bottle to your ironwork with a laminated note asking dog owners to spray pee off when it happens.
If the note sounds as a**holey as a bad room-mate, c’est la vie. Dog walkers will get the message and steer their dogs away, and it will probably take a month or two before somebody steals the spray bottle.
Sadly, the dogs will never get the message.
Am I being overly sensitive?
Yes
Try peeing on it yourself or get some fox pee deer repellent.
How do we get folks to stop peeing on the columns and elevators in the subway stations? Are they attracted to scent too?
Yes to what everyone above said–dogs like to “re-pee” at the same spots where they and other dogs already have. Don’t use cleaning products that have ammonia, as supposedly that attracts dogs to pee. There’s a product called Nature’s Miracle, sold at pet stores (and online), that’s supposed to get rid of the pee smell to dogs so they’re less tempted to re-pee. That might help break the cycle, although if it’s a lot of dogs it can be tricky. 🙁 You could also try, as JimHill mentioned above, a polite, friendly, non-aggro-sounding sign. 🙂
For what it’s worth, I don’t think you’re overreacting. I’m a dog owner, dog lover, and the world’s biggest dog defender, but I think it’s rude for people to let their dogs pee on other’s property. Sure, now and then the pooch sneaks one in before you catch it, but for the most part it’s not hard to direct them. Anyway, good luck!
i think it is really messed up that people are allowed to let their dogs piss wherever they feel like it. am i allowed to walk down the street and piss on someone’s gate, or car tire, or bike (seen it all happen)??? No, of course not. so why the double standard? it is equally as disgusting and unsanitary.
i understand that dogs have to go somewhere, but that somewhere should be a the grass in a park or a dog run or at least the dirt around a tree bed.